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Adnan Syed, Serial podcast subject, back at hearing for new trial

Maryland prosecutors plan to call more witnesses as a hearing for Adnan Syed, the convicted killer profiled in the popular Serial podcast, continues Monday.

Hearing continues Monday with witnesses for the prosecution

Adnan Syed enters Courthouse East in Baltimore prior to a hearing on Feb. 3, 2016 in Baltimore. His hearing, held before Baltimore Circuit Judge Martin Welch, is meant to determine whether Syed's conviction will be overturned and case retried. (Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun/Associated Press)

Maryland prosecutors plan to call more witnesses as a hearing for the convicted killer profiled in the popular Serialpodcast continues Monday.

Adnan Syed, now 35, is asking a judge for a new trial, arguing that his original attorney was ineffective because she failed to call an alibi witness, and that prosecutors presented cell tower data that misled jurors.

Syed was convicted of killing his high school girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison.

A judge heard last week from the alibi witness who said she was with Syed at a library during the time prosecutors say Lee was killed.

The podcast raised questions about the fairness of Syed's trial and uncovered evidence that helped spur the hearing on the possibility of a new trial.